Making A Bellow

Once I made it back to the new settlement with all of the stones, all of the people already there looked at the different colored stones in amazement as they had ever seen anything like them, or at least they acted as though that was the case.

From there, I just went into the system space and asked to be transported to the store while also trying to make small talk, the system however although respondent was clearly still mad at me for what had happened, so it was clear that it didn't want to talk to me, at least not now.

From there, I went over to the knowledge section and looked for ancient bellows, of which I found three different kinds, with the one I selected being made entirely out of wood, leather, and copper. Before I left though, I asked the system why I hadn't received any RP when I finished the new settlement.

"Well, host, why do you think that you receive RP?"

'Well, according to your own words, apparently I get it whenever I change somebody's life being either introducing something new or changing it dramatically in a positive way.'

"Alright, we are on the same page, then why would you receive RP for the work of others?"

'What do you mean?'

"Well, although you did give the orders to start building a new settlement, you didn't actually build it yourself, right?"

'Right...'

"Exactly, so that means that you believe that you are entitled to receiving RP because you gave out the orders to make a new settlement although it wasn't actually you that built it, but it was built by those that you have taught and those who now live there."

'I can understand that, but then why did I receive RP back when I set up the first settlement?'

"I'll be the first to admit that I was rather lenient on that one, but it was mainly because when it came actually to set up the settlement, you built the first house basically entirely on your own, and when it came to rest, you actually helped in the construction of them. I hope you can now understand host, regardless, good luck."

Before I could respond, I was simply pushed out of the system space and back into reality, not that I had anything else of value to say, of course. Regardless armed with the new knowledge on how to make a bellow, I got to work.

While typically, one would use processed leather since it would be more long-lasting, unlike the dead hide of an animal that had already been taken off of it, I didn't exactly have access to any of the chemicals needed to do that at the moment. Hence, I had to settle for a fresh jaguar hide I attained after setting up a trap.

I had to get two planks of food and carved the shape of the base of the bellow into it using a stone (the base and the top ate the same except for a hole that is carved into the top one). At its widest point, the bellow was 1ft wide, making it rather small.

Once that was done, I used the ax to cut that shape into both planks to the best of my ability before using the ax once again to carve the hole on the top through which most of the air would go in. This, of course, began to attract the attention of the people nearby as they had never seen anything like what I was making, even back in the original settlement.

I took a trip back to the original settlement to drop off Jose, Daniel, and Gabriel back in the settlement and collect some wood branches for me to take back to the original settlement.

However before I set off back there, I saw that the sky was already beginning to become a familiar tint of orange and that the sun was beginning to come down, so I had just to call it a day and sleep in the original settlement.

May 9th, 0001:

A soon as the morning came, I woke up and took the wood I had set apart yesterday, and went back to the original settlement, where thankfully, the wood I had cut yesterday had not been messed with and was still usable.

From there, I get a hole big enough to up all of the wood I had brought with me into. After putting said wood in, I then started a fire there before covering the burning wood with a layer of dirt while making sure that the fire didn't go out, that was charcoal would be created and ready to use in 12-14 hours.

Once that was done, I cut the small end of the top piece of wood with the hole in it so that the front of the bellow would stay in place while the top part moved up and down. And once that was done, I also carved a hole into the front of the bellow where the air would come out from.

All that was left was for the leather to be used to connect both picked of wood while leaving enough space for the air to come in when the bellow was used. However, to do that, I needed some sort of metal nail that could be hit into the wood.

This, of course, meant that I would have to make nails out of the copper stones I had brought back by basically just using rocks to help form it and then use annealing to prevent it from beginning to crack. (By annealing, I meant that I would just put the copper into a campfire and then, using sticks, moved it to the river to let it cool down).

All in all, after having to repeat the process 44 times (7ended up breathing because I made the needle too thin), I ended up having 37 somewhat thin needles that regardless, got the job done, so I just used the 'nails' to connect the skin to both pieces cutting off any extra hide that was still left.

From there, I grabbed an extra strip that I put into the front end of the bellow before nailing it in to secure that the cut-off part would not fall apart or move. And also, I had to go and collect some bamboo nearby which, although somewhat rare, was common enough not to take too much time to find.

Finally, I chopped off a piece of the bamboo long enough to be used as the tube at the very front of the bellow and put it in place before having to carve the hole to be slightly larger to get the closest thing I could to a perfect fit, finally completing the first bellow.